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  • noun The hide of a rat.

Etymologies

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rat +‎ skin

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Examples

  • How does a 10000 Euro fine sound for that ratskin Prada-like wallet?

    Veniceblog: 2005

  • How does a 10000 Euro fine sound for that ratskin Prada-like wallet?

    Bad Bag 2005

  • "Husband, " said Mrs. Hankshaw, withdrawing a bill from her ratskin bag.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • A single ratskin often forms the entire wardrobe of a native chief, and

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • A tailor here, the man that has done my coats for me, says he will line my ulster with minx or racoon, or the something ratskin, for 18 dollars, and, as I told mother in my last letter, he would make just such an ulster for 20 to 25 dols., so that you could get a very good fur-lined coat for 40 dollars, or about eight guineas.

    Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

  • She missed her ragged little confidante, into whose deaf ears she had been wont to pour her many miseries and her occasional joys -- Geeka, of the splinter limbs and the ratskin torso -- Geeka the disreputable -- Geeka the beloved.

    The Son of Tarzan 1915

  • A tiny bit of leopard skin covered her ratskin torso from shoulder to splinter knee.

    The Son of Tarzan 1915

  • A tiny bit of leopard skin covered her ratskin torso from shoulder to splinter knee.

    Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • She missed her ragged little confidante, into whose deaf ears she had been wont to pour her many miseries and her occasional joys -- Geeka, of the splinter limbs and the ratskin torso -- Geeka the disreputable -- Geeka the beloved.

    Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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